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The Cisco
® Media Delivery Engines (MDEs) are part of the Cisco Enterprise Content Delivery System (ECDS), a comprehensive media delivery system that helps organizations easily scale video and content delivery over their existing WAN infrastructure. The Cisco MDEs are dedicated appliances that run all ECDS software applications, including the Service Engine, Content Acquirer, Service Router, and Content Delivery System Manager. The Cisco MDEs are available in two models - the Cisco MDE 1125 and the Cisco MDE 3125 - to accommodate the scalability and performance requirements for different-size enterprise sites.

The Cisco MDE 1125 is ideal for small and medium-size site deployments that require less than 1000 simultaneous users and clients for media delivery. The Cisco MDE 1125 provides options from 1 to 2 TB of total storage. The Cisco MDE 1125 comes with a base media license of 100 Mbps throughput and up to 200 simultaneous streams. An additional upgrade license is available to increase the capacity to a total of 500 Mbps throughput and 1000 simultaneous connections.

The Cisco MDE 3125 is ideal for large-site and campus and data center deployments that require scalability for a larger number of users and clients for media delivery. The Cisco MDE 3125 provides 4 TB of total storage. The Cisco MDE 3125 comes with a base media license of 1 Gbps streaming and up to 2000 simultaneous streams. An additional upgrade license is available to increase the capacity to a total of 2 Gbps and 5000 simultaneous connections.

In both cases, the MDE appliances may be stacked together at a single site to further scale deployments and to provide load balancing and redundancy.

Figure 1 shows the Cisco MDE platform.

Figure 1. Cisco MDE Platform

Figure 2 shows the typical deployment architecture of Cisco ECDS using the MDEs.

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ECDS Base MDE 1125 Media Streaming License: up to 1 Gbps/2000 streams

MDE-3125-ML1G2000

MDE 3125 Media License Upgrade: up to additional 1 Gbps/2000 streams

MDE-3125-ML1G3000

MDE 3100 Series Content Acquirer Software License

MDE-3100-CALIC

Available for Both MDE Platforms

MDE HDD 2.5 (500-GB SATA)

MDE-HD2GC3-500GB

CDS Management Software License for ECDS

MDE-MGMTSW-LIC

Spares and Supplemental Orders

Media Delivery Engine 1125, hardware spare

MDE-1125-K9=

Media Delivery Engine 3125, hardware spare

MDE-3125-K9=

MDE HDD 2.5 (500-GB SATA) spare

MDE-HD2GC3-500GB=

MDE 1125 Media License Upgrade: up to additional 400 Mbps/800 streams

MDE-1125-ML400800=

MDE 3125 Media License Upgrade: up to additional 1 Gbps/2000 streams

MDE-3125-ML1G3000=

MDE 1100 Series Content Acquirer Software License

MDE-1100-CALIC=

MDE 3100 Series Content Acquirer Software License

MDE-3100-CALIC=

MDE 650W Power Supply C-Series, hardware spare

MDE-650WPS-C=

Service and Support

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